It is now just a week to go until the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics. Beijing has spent seven years preparing to become the first city to have hosted both the Summer and Winter Games, after it narrowly beat Almaty in Kazakhstan in a two-horse bidding process in 2015.
There are 15 sports to enjoy and 109 gold medals to be won, from the thrills and spills of alpine skiing to the endurance races of biathlon and cross-country. There’s the artistic beauty of ice skating, the high-tempo discipline and risk of speed-skating, and the aggression of ice hockey to look forward to. Plus the quadrennial rediscovery that they really do use brooms in curling. And our daily briefing will be there with you every step of the way, bringing you up-to-date results, a preview of what is to come in the 24 hours ahead, and the best of the writing from our team on the ground in China.
